Pensacola Coffee Party’s first open planning meeting of 2014 is this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 6:30-8 PM at the Tryon Public Library on Langley Avenue in Pensacola, midway between Ninth Avenue and Davis Highway.
The group will discuss a proposal that Pensacola Coffee Party resolve to formally partner with and take action joining in support of The Move To Amend Coalition. Formed in September 2009, Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests.
The Move to Amend Coalition is calling for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and that money can be regulated in political campaigns.
Move To Amend’s petition simply states the following:
“We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”
Coffee Party is a grassroots, non-partisan advocacy movement that aims to restore the principles and spirit of democracy in America. Our activities encourage inclusive, civil, fact-based, solution-oriented dialogue. We meet, talk, become informed and engaged as fellow Americans, rather than as members of political parties. Coffee Party doesn’t endorse candidates for elected office. We believe informed people, working together is the only way our democracy will work.